TREE THE AHWAZ OIL WORKERS | IMGpapers 1976

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face possible execution on trumped up charges of sedition.

Saqqez, town in Kurdestan, 5,000 Kurds demonstrated against article 15 of the draft, which makes Shi'ism the state religion: Most Kurds are Moslems, and fear that the clause is designed to make them second class citizens.

In Mahabad, local Kurds stormed Newens and Jo Richardson and a representative of the solidarity group. Its purpose will be to build support and raise money for a delegation of British women to go to Iran towards the end of the summer.

The repression meted women along with all other oppressed sections of the population by Iran's religious leaders has led to a decline in the organised women's movement the March which makes international solidarity more vital than Organise a collection and either bring it to the meeting or send it to: Iranian Women's Solidarity Group, 45 North Street, London SW4.